Snake was on the deck as he double-checked his B kit. He had several preset kits for various situations, B was for general combat. He had his standard knock-out pistol, as well as a shotgun for anti-personnel work, and a rocket launcher for vehicles. Plus he had his secondary equipment, including one particular item that got some weird looks when he requested it.

As the chopper rose up the elevator to the hanger, Snake ducked slightly from the propwash. "Ready to go?" asked the pilot.

"When you are Lightning Dust," Snake replied as he climbed aboard. As the chopper climbed into the air, Snake's iDroid beeped. Bringing it out, Snake saw that the support team had designated several possible landing points. Snake selected one, Dust shooting him a thumbs up when she received his selection via her HUD. Snake then started playing some music over his headphones as he looked at the map, planning his attack.

This was gonna be fun.

One of the rebels attacking Rarity's mine was patrolling the perimeter. Resistance was higher than originally expected, normally they ran when the tank pulled up. These guys were rather panicked for a few minutes, but then they went to the entrance and barricaded themselves in, but not before laying out a small minefield of C4. Two guys had already been shot trying to clear it, and it was positioned exactly where the tank needed to be to get a clear shot on the door.

However, their commander was rather skilled, and immediately ordered half them to scour for an alternate entrance, while the rest of them were on look out for anyone coming up. He grinned, hoping that the rich looking lady wouldn't be killed right away, they could have some real fun with her.

Out of the corner of his eye, he thought he something move. He turned to look, but saw nothing but a rather large cardboard box. He shrugged and turned away, but then he thought he heard something. Turning back, he saw nothing but the cardboard box. He decided to examine it, even if it was nothing, there might be something of value in the box. He grinned, imagining the praise he would get if it was full of precious materials, or perhaps dynamite or something to blow down the door. Who knows, maybe if he was lucky, he would lead the next raid.

As he reached to open it, something exploded out of it.

'A deamon' he thought to himself, before everything went black.

Snake grinned as he put his pistol away, 'Man, cardboard box truly is the last word in stealth tech'.

Snake gave him a once-over with his scope, "It's your lucky day, Mr B Assault." Snake pulled an odd fabric device with a strap off the back of his waist and attached it to the rebel's combat harness. With a pull of a toggle, it expanded into a balloon, shooting up into the air, bringing a now screaming rebel with it as his inventory spell put a new one in place. After a few seconds, he received a confirmation that the built in teleportation spell had brought him safely to Mother Base's brig. Snake chuckled, teleportation was one of the first things they tried to do with magic, but they never realized that their failures were because of magical interference at ground level. Once the subject hit 10,000' however, it got a lot easier.

Snake gave his map another look. So far he had neutralized about half of the infantry, with everyone above C grade safely aboard Mother Base. There they would be given the choice of either joining Diamond Dogs, or being sent to Guantanamo Bay. The rest of them were treated to a quick knife in the back of the neck, no sense wasting ammo and/or drawing attention. While Snake did feel exhilaration at combat, he still didn't like having to kill if he didn't have to, and privately hoped he never did.

After checking that radio chatter didn't indicate he'd been detected, he shouldered the rocket launcher. While he was proud of the fact that he had gone undetected so far during a daytime mission, the time for subtlety was over. He shot the rocket at the chopper, causing it to crash and burn, before triggering the C4 he'd planted on the tank. As expected, the troops immediately went into a total panic. As the heavy equipment was neutralized, Snake called in Dust to mop up using the chopper's autocannons. Seeing that the tide had turned in their favor, the remnants of Gem Unit charged out, taking care of the rebels who had taken cover.

As the last of the rebels surrendered, Snake pulled out a cigar and lit it, "I love it when a plan comes together."

Author's Note

Come one, not one of you guessed that the reference was Shipwreck, captain of the Oregon, was named after Shipwreck from GI Joe?

The Ocean's 11 thing I can understand, but this?

If you guys don't get this chapter's reference, I may lose faith in the internet.